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Doctors took an increasing role in childbirth from the eighteenth century onward. However, the care of newborn babies, sick or well, remained largely in the hands of mothers and midwives. Some baby incubators, similar to those used for hatching chicks, were devised in the late nineteenth century.
An incubator is a plastic dome-shaped machine designed as a crib that regulates a newborn infant's body temperature. The incubator is designed to allow the temperature to be adjusted according to the state of the baby's current body heat. A range of five types of incubators all serve different purposes in the neonatal intensive care unit.
The next innovation in incubator technology came in the 1960s, when the CO 2 incubator was introduced to the market. [4] Demand came when doctors realized that they could use CO 2 incubators to identify and study pathogens found in patients' bodily fluids. To do this, a sample was harvested and placed onto a sterile dish and into the incubator.
Embrace, based in San Francisco, California, makes low-cost portable baby incubators that don’t require a stable electricity supply. The Embrace incubator resembles a sleeping bag, but for a baby.
“When these babies are born prematurely, to sustain their lives they need to have the same temperature of the ir mother. This temperature can only be offered in the incubators, which are heated ...
Incubator (culture), a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures; Incubator (egg), a device for maintaining the eggs of birds or reptiles to allow them to hatch; Incubator (neonatal), a device used to care for premature babies in a neonatal intensive-care unit
Typically, newborn transport teams spend some time stabilizing a baby's condition prior to transport. Without adequate stabilisation, a clinical deterioration en route may occur. Wherever possible (and safe), in utero transfer is generally preferable to newborn transport. [ 10 ]
Each Incubator at Couney's Infantorium measured around 1.5m high, with steel walls, framework and a glass front. [8] In order to fill the incubators with warm air, water boilers fed warm water into pipes that ran underneath where the babies rested and thermostats were placed inside the incubators to maintain and regulate temperatures. [8]